The Reactions – Love You E.P. 7″

Repost from April 27th, 2006 . Added more scans and new rips of all the songs.

Here’s one for all lovers of melodic punk rock. Floridas The Reactions extremly sought after second 7inch is good but not great. “Marianne” is the standout track. I know that japanese collectors will go ape shit over this record so if you’ll have something nice to trade I might part with it. For some info about The Reactions click here.

54 Responses to The Reactions – Love You E.P. 7″

Aside from The Eat, probably my favorite Florida band. Anyone have info on their discography? I bought a pretty good cdr boot CD bout a year ago which includes the entire 1st 7″ and a really well recorded live set with over a dozen songs that to my knowledge weren’t released on anything else unless they happen to have and LP. The website’s called “The Pete Moss Memorial All Night Record Shop” (clik.to/moss) – no .com?! I picked up the Reactions, Essentials, Eat, and a few comp cd’s. For being cdr’s they’re a little pricey but worth it.

Goddamn it!! I keep coming back to hear “Nights on End”. What a fucking great song. I rank that up there in my top 50 of all time. The raunchy guitar, driving bass, incredible drumming, mixed with the poppy vocals…it’s a masterpiece. I don’t say that about many songs…thanks Peter. How are the other two songs??

REACTIONS – Official Release , 45 ~ 500 copies , some without covers ..some without labels , some with only one sided labels ,,,quantity of error pressings are unknown even by the band …

REACTIONS – Love You , 45 ~ 300 copies , out of the 300 copies pressed around 50 of which had a bizzarr defect to where the 45s had a very small crack around 3 centimeters long on the outside of the 45 …ive seen probly 8 t0 10 copies of these , 4 of which had the crack and all 4 somehow had no audioble noise from it …cracks being hairline not affecting the music …over time if you played these 45s alot im sure the cracks would really start to present them selves…

REACTIONS – Love You 10″ originally there were suppose to be 300 of these pressed but the the two members that put it together ran out of cash and only had 150 copies pressed ,,,this came out a little over 12 years ago i believe ,and it was all but gone before you could even get yer hands on it …i remember hearing about this release and searching high and low trying to find who would have it fer sale …to my despair most of this pressing went to japan to be sold ….

I have a Reactions video somewhere in which they play other songs I never heard recorded. By most accounts, they were a band that really should have gone further. Perhaps if they were from California or New York, they’d be a more household name today. Another great Ft Lauderdale band with a similar sound and story is The Essentials. The Essentials “Fast Music In A Slow Town” 7″ is one of the best Florida records of all time. I’m sure it has been on a blog somewhere or maybe Peter will post it here.
Bob

Thanks a lot! the Screaming Sneakers was an interesting band 80’s from South Florida that fits perfectly with the Reactions, the Eat or the Abusers…the cover is nice but not very different from the original, except the lovely female vocals.

my uncle was the lead singer in The Reactions, had no idea they had such a good following. however i do know that the reason why they never got anywhere was due to my grandfather holding him back from touring. email me all the videos you have, i’m sure he would love to see whats circulating around. [email protected]

An authorized collection of Reactions material is finally surfacing in the next couple weeks. It’ll contain the songs from the two EPs, along with unreleased demo and live tracks. You can stream the whole album and pre-order it on the Cheap Rewards website: